Design Team at Large

by ciriliarose on August 28, 2008

Phew! I can’t believe I’m closing in on one month at Berroco. Yesterday Margery, Norah and I took a trip to Boston so I could learn how to plan photo shoots. We saw many models and a lot of inspiring clothing. As you might imagine a lot of thought goes into styling the pattern books and it really isn’t the sort of thing you can pick up in a university or book, though I’m feeling pretty good about my Project Runway/America’s Next Top Model addictions! I’m picking up a lot simply by watching these two in action:

By the way, the baristas at Starbucks, completely unprompted, christened us with new names. We decided that these were our alter egos, used only when traveling! In fairness to him, I used my shorter nickname Ria when ordering but still…Van? Lauria at least EVOKES Norah =)

In transit we couldn’t contain our geekiness–all three of us are addicted to our gadgets and could barely get any knitting done, we were too busy sharing tech-ish gossip. Norah used FileMagnet to download my Brûlée Scarf pattern which was featured in last week’s Knit Bits, so cute on the tiny screen! Norah also filled us in about Stitch Minder.

Another program that had us in a tizzy was Polyvore. We were REALLY psyched to see that the Knitting Tote designed by our Design Assistant Donna was featured in many collages, including my favorite which is attic themed:

My name is impossible for baristas to spell AND pronounce so I came up with my ‘Coffeeshop Name’. I thought about it quite a bit and decided on ‘Jill’. Easy to write, it’s never spelled differently (unless you’re totally cuckoo) and everyone can pronounce it! Now I feel sorta incognito whenever I get a coffee!

I appreciated the fashion styling in the Weekend booklet #296 so much! It inspired me to make 3 of the items so far with Weekend. Is there a way to find out the brand name of the Shorts used on the model on page 6 Anu, and page 7 Una. Love, love, love!